Stories from Thursday, February 18, 2010

Delmar Clinton Hill Sr., passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, at his home in Nevada. He was born Sept. 14, 1943, in Nevada, to Elmer Daniel Hill Sr. and Elizabeth Loretta Hallam Hill. He married Peggy Ann Lowry on Aug. 11, 1988, in Keokuk, Iowa, and she survives of the home...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri's black walnut trees could be in danger if a disease in western states continues moving east, said a University of Missouri Extension forestry specialist. Thousand cankers disease has devastated black walnut trees in at least eight western states: Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado...

The Graduation Matters initiative is a statewide effort to reduce the dropout rate that must originate in the home. Though the issue is being viewed and approached from the perspectives of the school system, the student and the community, the path to graduation begins at home with parents who care...

Students in the culinary arts program at Nevada Regional Technical Center are cookin' up a bright future for themselves, whether they use the skills they learn in their own homes, a business of their own one day, or in a career in a commercial kitchen of some kind...

A recent notice from the Star-Telegram announced that Robert Carroll "Bob" Warren had died on Thursday, Feb. 4. Many people from Nevada will remember Bob as the son of the late Huell Warren Sr., a former minister of the Nevada Christian Church, the brother of the late Huell Warren Jr. ...